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CHARON-VAX Workflowone Customer Customer Solutions With CHARON-VAX, WorkflowOne Goes Green and Saves Green The Challenge When WorkflowOne acquired The Relizon Company in late 2005, they created one of Company Profile North America’s largest end-to-end supply chain and logistics powerhouses. They planned WorkflowOne, Inc. is one of to launch new, innovative IT services and software that would support and manage the the nation’s largest providers of managed print and entire business document communications life cycle; they also faced the daunting task of promotional marketing services. restructuring a company with over 5,000 employees and 32,000 customers across the Utilizing their innovative Dual United States. Network Advantage (DNA) solution, WorkflowOne The Opportunity offers design, procurement, To accomplish these goals, WorkflowOne needed to add more servers to their data center. purchasing, warehousing, They wanted to find a solution that would decrease their current maintenance costs, and fulfillment, and delivery of increase the speed and performance of their existing hardware. Their data center’s UPS print and marketing services. (Uninterruptible Power Supply) was at 95% capacity, and space was at a premium because WorkflowOne is a subsidiary of the size of their existing VAX hardware, pictured below. The VAX equipment was in use of Workflow Management, and business critical; replacement of the entire system would be cost and labor intensive, and Inc. For more information, visit www.workflowone.com or call more than 50 employees would require retraining before operating the new equipment. toll-free 866-789-8999. The Discovery After researching the issue, they discovered that their old VAX systems Partner Profile were drawing most of the power. Quayle Consulting Inc. is They had two 3-CPU VAX 7630’s a Professional Engineering and a 5-CPU VAX 7850 in a clustered corporation located in configuration, as well as 800 GB of Ohio. Since 1992, Quayle data on ancient disk drives. Data Consulting has provided system Center Operations Manager, Mark virtualization, data migration, Gillespie, sought the counsel of system administration, software development, and Stanley Quayle, of Quayle Consulting, training services. As a Value- for a solution to their VAX woes. As a Added Reseller for Stromasys, Value-Added Reseller for Stromasys, Inc., Quayle Consulting offers Inc., Quayle Consulting offers Cross- CHARON-TB, CHARON-VAX, Platform Virtualization solutions for and CHARON-AXP products, Digital Equipment Corporation’s support, and installation (now Hewlett-Packard) VAX, Alpha, services. Quayle also boasts and PDP models. Via telephone and extensive experience in email, Quayle Consulting supported OpenVMS, UNIX, and Linux the IT team at WorkflowOne during operating systems. For more The old VAX hardware at WorkflowOne’s Data Center. information, visit www.stanq. a proof-of-concept that demonstrated com, call 1-888-VAX-VMS-8 how Stromasys’ CHARON-VAX (US and Canada) or +1 614- software could easily virtualize their 868-1363 (Worldwide). entire VAX cluster. 1 Customer Solutions The Implementation WorkflowOne selected a new HP Proliant server and external disk array, pictured below. The server runs Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Quayle Consulting was on site to provide support during the production cutover to the CHARON-VAX system. They encountered a few minor issues, but after several quick adjustments, the system was up and running. The virtualized VAX was online. The Results WorkflowOne achieved their goals; they saved power, increased space, and decreased cooling costs. They also experienced an increase in hardware “We went from performance and speed. After implementing paying more the CHARON-VAX solution, hardware than $100,000 power consumption dropped dramatically in maintenance - from 9,360 watts to 600 watts. Heat fees per year to dissipation decreased from 31,937 BTU/h to 2,038 BTU/h. Space was no longer an paying just under issue, as the original 48 square feet required $10,000 per to house the equipment was reduced to year. And we did four 9-inch rack units. WorkflowOne’s it with virtually savings in maintenance fees over just one no effort on our year covered the cost of the CHARON- part.” VAX licenses, the new hardware, and installation services. WorkflowOne has - Mark Gillespie, since purchased a second CHARON-VAX Data Center license key; in the event of a disaster, they Operations can recover almost anywhere, without the Manager, need for VAX hardware. WorkflowOne About Stromasys Stromasys SA is a privately held company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, serving thousands of users in more than 50 countries. Stromasys develops and markets Cross-Platform Virtualization solutions that allow owners of PDP, VAX, and Alpha computers to continue to run their mission-critical applications - unchanged on new, industry standard computer systems. Stromasys SA was established in 1998 as part of a management buyout of DEC’s (Digital Equipment Corporation) European Migration and Porting centre following the HP/Compaq merger. The vast experience gained from years of large-scale migration and porting projects, System-level VMS engineering projects and development of Binary translators eventually led to the development of the CHARON-VAX and CHARON-AXP products. For more information, please visit www.stromasys.com. 2.
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